Originally Posted by mom-6

Most of the garment sewing I do, I initially stitch WRONG sides together with a 1/4" seam, turn it to right sides together and do a 3/8"-1/2" seam enclosing the cut edge (French seam).

I started doing this on kids clothes years ago for the added umph to the seam and now I like it because it takes care of any raveling/fraying as well since much of my garment sewing is on fabrics that ravel like crazy.